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The Oakland Observer MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY OAKLAND Volume III — Number 23 FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1962 Rochester, Michigan Painting Gift Spurs Art Gallery Plans Prominent German Painter's Work Is Latest To Join Oakland's Growing Art Collection The gift of a painting by one of America's best younger artists to Michigan State University Oakland's new art gallery was announced today by Dr. John Galloway, head of the MSUO art department. The painting, "Black Rock" by Jimmy Ernst, is valued at $2,600. The gift was arranged by the Grace Borgenicht Gallery, of New York City. Ernst, 41, a native of Germany, is the son of Max Ernst, one of the founders of the Surrealist movement. His works are re- presented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan, Whitney, Soloman Guggenheim, and Brooklyn Museums in New York, the Chicago Art Institute, the Pennsylvania Academy, the Cranbrook Academy, and many others. He has won several major Scholarship 'Gala' awards and his work has been featured in exhibitions of some of the principal museums in Tomorrow Night this country as well as in Italy, Two hundred and fifty coup- France, Japan, and Belgium. les have been invited to the His commissions have includ- second annual Meadow Brook ed the executive dining room mural for the General Ball tomorrow night at Meadow Motors Technical Center, the dining Brook Hall. room mural for the USS Presi- Sponsored by Mrs. Alfred G. dent Adams, and the sculpture Wilson and the Executive signatures for N.B.C. Televi- sion's "Producer's Showcase" in Trustees of Michigan State 1964, and "Playwright's 66" in University Oakland Foundation, collaboration with Albert Ter- the $100 a couple dance will ris. help provide 130 scholarships He has been a visiting lec- for students who would not turer at the University of Michi- otherwise' be able to attend gan, Yale University, the De- troit college. Institute of Art and many others. The Gala Ball, as this year's The Ernst painting is the dance is entitled, has been plan- 18th to be given or placed on ned and organized by two-score indefinite loan in the MS1.10 or more ladies who comprise gallery which according to the Scholarship and the MSUO university officials will open this summer in Ball Committees. North Founda- tion Hall where a large room is Mrs. William T. Gossett and being converted to display the Mrs. R. Jamison Williams are university's growing collection. co-chairmen of this year's "Art works are particularly dance. important to this university and its students," said Over $40,000 was raised last Galloway, "because the understanding JOHN C. GALLOWAY, head of MSUO's art de- the Yoseido Gallery in Tokyo especially for year for scholarships. This of beauty and the language of art partment, pictured with part of the exhibit of showing at MSUO and Hillsdale College, is year's goal for the scholarship are as central a part of every woodcuts and lithographs by 35 contemporary presently displayed in the Oakland Center fund is $60,000, of which student's experience as the Japanese artists. The collection brought from lounge. Most of the works are for sale. $25,000 will come from the pur- suit of light and truth through dance. the study of science, literature LATE BULLETIN of "Tickets sales are ahead or history. Since every MSUO said. Formal Dedication Scheduled David Blank, Pontiac sopho- last year," Mrs. Gossett student takes art, everyone, not more, is the recipient of the Mrs. Gossett emphasized that just the art majors, is the bene- second annual Freshman Chem- the band, the decorations, and ficiary of these gifts." For New Kresge Library the food were all donateed. istry Award. The collection includes Sebastian Kresge, 94, will been kept to a minimum and "There is no *over-head for the works by Galloway, Rudolf von formally present the Kresge equipment is free-standing Monday's announcement cited dance; all of the ticket money all Huhn, Warren Brandt, William Library to Michigan State Uni- Blank as the outstanding stu- will go directly into the scholar- to permit maximum flexibility. Walmsley, Ralston Crawford, versity Oakland at dedication dent in the two-semester intro- ship fund," Mrs. Gossett said. Moishe Smith, John Beardman, ceremonies May 12. Kresge is Under the present circulation ductory course, Chemistry 114, About 16 per cent of MSUO's the founder of the S.S. Kresge system, all stacks are open and 115. (Continued on Page 3) student body receives some Company and the Kresge Foun- the amount and period of cir- Later this month, he scholarship aid. "This is siigni- dation, which provided the 1/12 will culation is unrestricted. represent when one realized that million dollars for the con- MSUO in the mid- ficant western wealthy, private institu- struction of the building. Construction of the Library regional segment of a many Comprehensives national scientific competition tions may not have as many as began in October, 1960. The At 10 a.m. University Li- sponsored by the Chemical Rub- 30 per cent of their students on brarian David Wilder will dis- building was completed in ber Company of Cleveland, scholarships," Loren Pope, as- cuss the library's facilities, and September, 1961. Ohio. sistant to the Chancellor said. Voted Out guided tours will be provided MSUO students will not have for the guests. to take university-wide oral or C. Allen Harlen, of the written comprehensive exam- MSUO Foundation, will acknow- Roberts: Tax Package Holds Key To MSUO's '62-'63 Appropriation inations. ledge the Kresge gift on be- SPECIAL Roberts added that Michi- Replying to a question about Dr. Donald O'Dowd, half of the University at 11 TO THE OBSERVER gan's three greatest needs are package, dean of the state income tax the a.m. A reception in the Oak- "If the $40 million nuisance "higher education, secondary university, announced this Roberts said that he wanted to week that the land Center will follow at tax package is passed by the education, and mental health," Academic Senate, obtain special relief for busi- meeting 12:30 p.m. legislature, then MSUO's bud- which are all caused by the "de- on April 27, voted to ness, whose taxes are about 50 remove Future expansion of the li- get should be in fine shape," clining death rate and rising the examination re- per cent higher than in other brary, located on the highest said Senator Farrell E. Roberts birth rate." quirement from the school's midwestern states. point of the campus, is possible (R) of Oakland County. The nuisance tax package will catalogue. in three directions. The three- The $40 million woud raise not solve Michigan's financial Several out-state senators O'Dowd stated that some de- story structure has a 200,000 the state's income for next year problems, Roberts explained, were asking for special con- partments may still require volume capacity and includes to $510 million; of this, Gover- because the state has a debt of siderations of local interests comprehensive examinations for special facilities for group nor Swainson has recommended $200 million which is presently and refused to back the income graduation, but that there were study, typing and microfilm a $1,574,353 budget for MSUO, being paid off at the rate of tax package unless their con- too many technical difficulties resource. an increase of $595,352 over $1.2 million a year from the siderations were heard, Roberts to integrate the tests into a Interior supporting walls have this year. general fund of the budget. continued. university program at this time. Friday, May 11, 1962 THE OAKLAND OBSERVER Page 2 Observer Editor Visits The Oakland Observer Tar, Feathers and Ticket 21 Exposition Century Friday, May 11, 1962 Vol. II — No. 23 "Go west young man," has taken on new meaning this MEMBER NEW ORLEANS year. United Press International Going west may well mean Published Weekly at Rochester by the Students of RAILROko going to Seattle to see Ameri- Michigan State University Oakland fair in more via-mita ca's first world's and Business Offices, 109 North Foundation Hall, 21. Editorial than 20 years — Century University Extension 2221 PopArn.„ And going west to see Century William Hoke 21, or C-21 as it come to be Editor Editor Nancy Cowen known, is well worth the three Managing Editor Tony Hammer day drive (straight through) or News irr; Manager Karen Hefner the four and one half hour Advertising Bruce Plaxton, Jim Bouhana, (by jet). Reporters flight Bill Williamson, Lauree Webb Covering only 23 acres.—in Brussels 500 were used — the For the Great Unwashed science-oriented fair is a Culture sample of international scienti- fic progress. Forty-seven coun- tries have built exhibition halls Detroit Zoo Opens on the fair grounds. From Great Britain's exhibit, CONCERTS — OPERA — DANCE where MSUO junior Joan Com- May meree is a hostess, to magni- 11 Theodore Bikel, folksinger ficant United States Science Ford Auditoriium, 8:30 p.m. science from earliest times to 11, 12 Mozart's Don Giovanni, University Opera 8:30 p.m. present-day atomic structure is Wayne State University Theatre, presented in graphic detail, the 11, 12, 18, 19 Jerome Kern's Showboat fair presents a bold and excit- Windsor Light Opera Association tomorrow. Cleary Auditorium, Windsor, 8:15 p.m. 12 Severo Ballet with the Detroit Symphony Starting as a joke during a Ford Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. Reprinted from Minnesota Daily city council meeting in Seattle 13 Arbeiter Manner Chor Klub in 1956, the 70 million dollar (German Song Festival) fair is expected to draw 15 Ford Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.